Elissa Rose (Girl vs. Robot), Jason Braaten (Tweetics), and Jason Dunstan (Ardra) join Fes and Mark to discuss Editorial Comics! Don’t worry! We soon spin off into tangents about the evolution and quality of news and reporting in general! This is the most intelligent episode of The Webcomic Beacon yet!

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Milestones: Xylia Tales (2 yrs), Tao of Geek (7 yrs), Gypsy (200). 

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
The Nineteenth Centrury Industrialist, Girlamatic, Alice and Kev.

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Philip Brown (Yosh!) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss his comic, catgirls, magic, parallel realities in comics, and tangents. Philip also drew the cover for this week. See the full sized version, as well as other arts, in our covers and fanarts section!

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Milestone: Bit Map World (#300)

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Sinfest, Webcomic List, Jenny Everywhere, GigCast, Penny Arcade, Penny Arcade Podcast, Webcomic Weekly, Digital Strips, PVP, Least I Could Do, Something Awful, Girl vs Robot, Twokinds

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George (Amazoness!) and Ben (Hero Academy) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to attempt to discuss the LGBT Webcomic Charity Art Auction (Running July 20-24th, 2009), benefitting the Point Foundation… but if you are familiar our show, this is one of those “runaway episode”. We devolve into differences between the USA and UK soon enough.

But check out and bid on several pieces of artwork!

Milestones: Tally Road *NSFW* (300), Hero Academy (100), The Tao of Geek (7 yrs), Calamities of Nature (2 yrs), Children of the Tiger (1 yr)

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Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:

Mysteries of the Arcana, Yu+Me=Dream, I Was Kidnapped by Lesbian Pirates From Outer Space, Jane’s World, Diablito Del Ring, Khaos Komix, Dar: ASGTSCD, Ugly Girl, Clan of the Cats, FERA, Simply Sarah, Apple of Discord.

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Arne (Union of Heroes), David (Zapano), and Sarah (Life Aint No Pony Farm) join Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss the benefits of making a webcomic multilingual!

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Milestones: featuring Talking Guinea Pigs! (1yr & 100), Matter of Fact (200), Jump Leads (2 yrs) and Luke Surl (1 yr)

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
French Webcomics, Georgian Language, Webcomic Planet, Megatokyo, Sluggy Freelance, Freefall, Something Positive, Sabrina online, Phoenix Requiem.

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Melissa Kaercher (Tin Lizard Productions) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss Fonts and Lettering. Melissa had also drawn this week’s cover art (see the whole thing in our Art Section!)

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Font resources discussed, include: Your Fonts custom font creator tool, Ninja Lettering, High-Logic FontCreator, ComicCraft, Blambot, 1001 Free Fonts, Darwinatrix, and identifont.

Milestones: Pron quest (NSFW) (1 yr) and Jayden and Crusader (2 yrs).

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Sexpercussions, Webcomic Reviews & Interviews, CONvergence, Dr Blink Superhero Shrink, Dork Tower, Batman Strikes, Green Ronin, and Devil’s Due Publishing.

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Michael Sisk (Michael Online) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss the new Webcomic and Inkblot 2.0, and what it means for WordPress Webcomickers. The crew also gives overdue impressions on several previously submitted webcomics.

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David Wolfe of Paranoia High draws this week’s cover art. View the full image in our Art Section.

Milestones: The Frustrated Cartoonist (100 strips), Tally Road (1 yr). This week we set our Impressions on Genuine Draft, Wonder Girls, Of Noobs and Men, Strangeways: Murder Moon, Rune Master: Tales of a Demons Slayer, Psychic Soldier Kai, Cosmic Hellcats, ICECUBES, The World According to Geek.

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Webcomic and Inkblot, O31, Juice.

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Adam Smithee (The Apple of Discord) joins Fes and Mark to discuss what to do when you are stuck for ideas. Tanya was away this week.

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Milestones: Deamon Eater (300 pages), The Glass Urchin (100 strips), Cartworks (2 yrs), Glitchtown (100 strips), 67th Avenue (200 strips), Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic (3 yrs)!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Angry D Monkey, Ardra, Alone in A Crowd, Webcomic Crossover and Cameo Archive, Gilbert and The Grim Rabbit, Gigcast, Webcomic Weekly, Digital Strips, Podwarp 1999, 910CMX Webcomic, TGTWebcomics, Webcomics information, Candi, The Autumn Lake Podcast, Art and Story, Tin Lizard Productions, TV Tropes, Webcomic Wallpapers,
Jenny Everywhere, New British Comics, Damienne Hobbs Reflects, Legend of Jenny Everywhere, Rail shift, Jenny Everywhere Forum, Jenny Everywhere: When Casting Calls, When Casting Calls preorder, Follow Shifter Archive on Twitter, Paranoia High.

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Rich Morris (“Doctor Who – Forever Janette”, “The 10 Doctors”, “House of Paulus”, “24fps” and “Yet another fantasy Gamer Comic“) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss Doctor Who and The 10 Doctors fan webcomic. Rich was kind enough to draw the awesome cover for this week, check out the original size version on our Art Page!

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Milestones: Gilbert and the Grim Rabbit (100 strips) and Elderly Apple (500 strip).

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
Rich Morris’ Doctor Who – Forever Janette”, “The 10 Doctors”, “House of Paulus”, “24fps” and “Yet another fantasy Gamer Comic“, Colored Ten Doctors, Drawing Day, Shifter Archive, The Shifter Archive’s Jenny Everywhere Project Discussion for 2009.

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Adam Smithee (Apple of Discord) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark continue to discuss how not to make a webcomic.

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Don’t forget to listen to PART ONE!

Milestones: Toilet Texting (100 strips), Ravilob (1 yr), Twisted Musing (2 yrs & 300 issues), Dungeon Legacy (100 pages).

This episode is brought to you by: Jayden and Crusader, The Apple of Discord and Yosh!

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
The Webcomic List, Dog Pile Forum, Drunk Duck, Comic Genesis, Smack Jeeves, Net Mechanic, LEPUS (gone), Spreadshirt, Zazzle, Printfection, Quantcast, Rocket Llama, Abstract Gender, Aptitude Test, Speak no evil, Eisner vote, Theory of everything comics, GOD TM, Rosetta Stone, The Ten Doctors.

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Adam Smithee (Apple of Discord) joins Fes, Tanya, and Mark to discuss five of the ten things you shouldn’t do when making a webcomic.

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And don’t forget Part 2!

The Rampage Network‘s Feature comic this week is O31. Milestones: Insanity of  Xade (2 yrs) and Oy (400 strips).

News: Estrus Enterainment is looking for colorists and other artists to draw Adult comics (web and print).  If you are not comfortable with X-rated or pornographic subject matter please don’t apply. Go HERE for more information and the application requirements.

Thanks to George for recording the sites mentioned on the show:
8-bit theater, Penny Arcade, XKCD, Girl Genius, Font Explorer, Font Creator, Free handwritten font creator.

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